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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2026 1:14 pm 
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This season has tanked Drew's winning percentage. It's still one of the best in team history. 6th in team history. Porter, Sullivan and Valentine are 4, 5 and 6th. Valentine is just ahead of Ireland. Historically, he is one of our best coaches. It is a mistake to discount his first year following Porter. He kept that team together and won without Cam Krutwig. It is difficult to run it back. The first season in the A10 should be discounted because of the mass graduation of players and the new league. He had to rebuild. Seasons 24 and 25 were more of what we should expect. This year is a disaster. However, in retrospect, we can not underestimate the impact of losing Edwards, Dawson and Quinn.

It's not like coaches are going to be parachuting into Gentile to get this job.

Let's see what he does.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2026 3:01 pm 
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88Rambler wrote:

It's not like coaches are going to be parachuting into Gentile to get this job.



Sure they will. It's one of the better jobs in the A10 based on resources.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2026 4:18 pm 
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88Rambler wrote:
This season has tanked Drew's winning percentage. It's still one of the best in team history. 6th in team history. Porter, Sullivan and Valentine are 4, 5 and 6th. Valentine is just ahead of Ireland. Historically, he is one of our best coaches. It is a mistake to discount his first year following Porter. He kept that team together and won without Cam Krutwig. It is difficult to run it back. The first season in the A10 should be discounted because of the mass graduation of players and the new league. He had to rebuild. Seasons 24 and 25 were more of what we should expect. This year is a disaster. However, in retrospect, we can not underestimate the impact of losing Edwards, Dawson and Quinn.

It's not like coaches are going to be parachuting into Gentile to get this job.

Let's see what he does.


This offseason is probably a complete roster rebuild. With the way Drew has struggled with, by today’s standards, pretty moderate roster turnover, we should expect next years team to be just as bad, probably worse.

If you go to any of the other A10 social media, they all think Drew getting fired is a no-brainer.

It’s time to move on, kicking the can for a year is pointless and is just going to sink our brand even more.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2026 4:44 pm 
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Whoever coaches after this season, even if not Drew and instead someone (like a Schertz) who brings dedicated players along from his prior team, will face an uphill battle to put a competitive team out on the court. It's not like the kids being recruited can't notice the losing record of the Ramblers this season.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2026 10:39 pm 
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I disagree. There's no excuse to not be competitive. We play a schedule like we played this year, we should be 10-3 or whatever in the noncon, and we should be middle of the pack in the A10 at worst. We sure as shit shouldn't be losing multiple games by 20+ points.

And there's talent if you keep Rubin, Amos, Dotson, Glaskov, etc.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 17, 2026 9:28 am 
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Not competitive in the sense of actually competing. We must always be competing. Competitive in standings. I wasn't clear. But as for next year, I can safely say I have deep concerns for everything men's Ramblers basketball.


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 17, 2026 7:47 pm 
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Ramblermaniacs, two ways this goes. 1. Only up 2. flatline and stay here at the bottom. But I've seen this movie before, and Loyola is very capable of staying bad for a long time. I'm at the point of why fire anybody? It will not matter with this new NIL & portal in collegiate sports. Either spend 25 to 30 million on a top team, or nothing until you have that type of budget after seeing this season.


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